FBI says Iranian hackers are using Telegram to steal data in malware attacks
Iranian government hackers are using Telegram as a means to steal data from hacked dissidents, dissidents, and journalists opposed to the regime around the world, according to an FBI warning released Friday. In the first stage of the attack, the hacker contacts the target, pretending to be a known contact or technical support, and is […]
Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion is in talks to sell power to OpenAI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is stepping down as chairman of the board of Helion, the fusion startup he backs, amid reported negotiations between the two companies. The deal, reported by Axios, is in its early stages and could see OpenAI guaranteeing 12.5% of Helion’s production: 5 gigawatts by 2030 and 50 gigawatts by 2035. OpenAI […]
Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion is in talks to sell power to OpenAI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is stepping down as chairman of the board of Helion, the fusion startup he backs, amid reported negotiations between the two companies. The deal, reported by Axios, is in its early stages and could see OpenAI guaranteeing 12.5% of Helion’s production: 5 gigawatts by 2030 and 50 gigawatts by 2035. OpenAI […]
Federal immigration agents filmed making arrests at airport as President Trump asks ICE to ease delays in security lines
Federal immigration agents showed up at multiple U.S. airports on Monday after the Trump administration announced it would deploy ICE agents to ease security lines as the partial government shutdown continues. The closure, which began on February 14, has resulted in long lines at airport gate security checkpoints normally manned by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission has closed its investigation into electric vehicle startup Faraday Future, even though SEC staff working on the case recommended enforcement action last year, according to a TechCrunch investigation. The SEC notified the company and investigators of the closure last week, four people familiar with the investigation who were granted anonymity […]
Cursor acknowledges that the new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Kim
AI coding company Cursor announced a new model this week called Composer 2, touting it as offering “state-of-the-art coding intelligence.” However, an X user posting under the name Fynn quickly claimed that Composer 2 was “just Kimi 2.5” with reinforcement learning added. Kimi 2.5 is an open source model recently released by Moonshot AI, a […]
Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘false compliance’
An anonymous Substack post published this week accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers” that it complies with privacy and security regulations, potentially exposing those customers to “criminal liability under HIPAA and significant fines under GDPR.” Delve is a Y Combinator-backed startup that announced last year that it would raise $32 million […]
An exclusive tour of Amazon’s Trainium lab, the chip that’s won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple
Shortly after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced AWS’s groundbreaking $50 billion investment deal with OpenAI, Amazon invited me on a private tour of the chip development lab at the heart of the deal, at (mostly*) its own expense. Industry experts are watching Amazon’s Trainium chip, created at that facility, for its implications for lower-cost AI […]
Are AI tokens a new signing bonus or just a business cost?
This week, a topic that has been boomeranging around Silicon Valley is back in the spotlight: AI tokens as compensation. The idea is very simple. Companies don’t just give engineers salaries, stocks, and bonuses, they also give them budgets for AI tokens, the computational units that power tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. You spend […]
Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘false compliance’
An anonymous Substack post published this week accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers” that it complies with privacy and security regulations, potentially exposing those customers to “criminal liability under HIPAA and significant fines under GDPR.” Delve is a Y Combinator-backed startup that announced last year that it would raise $32 million […]